Project Outline for an Innovative Training Network
Dublin City University

Description and Motivation:

Online sales are growing rapidly while brick and mortar companies are hit by stagnation or even diminishing returns. Europe is losing ground against the big global players from the US and Asia whereby turnover drains and jobs are axed. Traditional brick and mortar companies have particular advantages over pure online retailers (e.g. haptic of products), but fall behind in other aspects like information quality, assortment or delivery quality. Due to technological advancements shopping will look differently in 2025. New technologies including wearables, location based services and the IoT have the potential to serve as bridge builders between offline and online commerce by enabling parallel utilization of different shopping and information channels. The on-site use of these new technologies and devices at retail stores opens up novel promising opportunities. The rigor combination of online, offline and mobile channels provides manifold great potentials for those companies who are able to play a dominant role in omni-channel.

General Objective:

GO1: To implement an innovative interdisciplinary cross-sector Pan-European training network in order to eliminate barriers between disciplines, sectors, and countries in the field of connected retail.

GO2: To establish a training programme for a new generation of highly-skilled researchers by conducting comprehensive blended training that combines campus-based and industrial practice training through well-established researchers and practitioners from academia and industry. This should generate excellent career perspectives for the recruited ESRs both in the industrial and the academic sector through tailored training along individual career development plans.

GO3: To implement an innovative research programme to develop innovative concepts, methods and applications in the context of connected retail by conducting complementary individual research projects with each exploring a specific field of connected retail.

GO4: To ensure the continuation of the training on a European level via multiple training formats in the form of long-term academic training initiatives and study programmes.

GO5: To disseminate the accumulated knowledge to all relevant stakeholders.

Elaborate innovative approaches for the innovation breakthrough of no-line commerce in Europe.

Research Objectives:

RO1: Digitalisation of Business Models: Individual research projects shall identify ways for the successful configuration of business models in connected retail and develop a corporate foresight model for sustainable business development in connected retail.

The new Distributed Electric Propulsion – DEP uses a revolutionary design, generating lift within a relatively small body by employing a unique combination of lifting surfaces. This is primarily because it allows the creation of an extremely compact aerial vehicle which has Vertical Takeoff and Landing capabilities and high lifting efficiencies. DEP as a rotorless drag-reducing propulsion system can be deployed in a versatile hover-capable flying aircraft to lift heavy loads efficiently. Scalable with a combination of stable overlapping flight roles and modes from horizontal take-off through assisted low speed and stationary hover through to high speed winged flight and back. DEP mainly employs a multiple ducted fan arrangement and new ducted fan configuration creating a very efficient air distribution

This innovative DEP concept allows building some aircraft configurations that are also news. As a pilotless drone or replacement for ageing S/VTOL airframes, this multi-role propulsion system and application provides enhanced operational versatility, stability, scalability, handling, fuel-efficiency, payload capacity, performance, reduced noise and increased safety potential. Other benefits are simplified mechanical construction over helicopter with multiple-redundant array of engines with independent throttling for directional thrust, feathering on failure and controlled vertical cushion decay to produce a soft landing. Blade-shedding will not cause catastrophic power-loss from multi-engined array

The aim of the project is to develop a online application for users from the European Union and the CIS on the questions of renewable energy. The project is based on the possibilities of Google Classroom, where in the form of Big Data gather all the available training courses, scientific publications and articles, studies and other materials on this topic.

The user receives a response to its request, and also set of courses in the relevant subject and other materials for further development. Selection of materials is carried out by means of the application.

By optimizing the search process, transfer and analysis of information we want to create an accessible platform for raising awareness and interest in clean energy. The platform is designed for the use of tablets and mobile devices and optimized for them.

Platform integrated into social networks such as Facebook, Linked In, Twitter, in addition to finding and communicating with „like-minded people” – people with similar queries ensures the availability of the received information. In addition, the user can contact the team of working online in these networks specialists and get a personal answer to question that will allow to personalize the user’s query and to generate the most accurate answer.

The platform presents the work of experts from all world, research from various Universities, the materials of the European specialized media and other representatives of the content industry, covering news in the field of renewable energy. This will expand opportunities for cooperation of leading representatives of science, business and media in the renewable energy sector in Europe and beyond; increase the effectiveness of their work and, thanks to the interactive capabilities of the platform will be the basis for interdisciplinary communication and interaction of representatives of the content industry in clean energy.

Our project will make available online lectures, live broadcasts from the construction, to listen to the recordings and to present various meetings of European and partner countries. This will make the team of specialists, translating materials into other languages, add subtitles to video materials. This practice will allow users to be informed of the latest events will further enhance their awareness and will work with those for whom unacceptable printed information. similar result of implementing the integration of our application in environments such as Periscope and Youtube.

PARTNER PROFILE SOUGHT

Required skills and expertise of partner(s):

experts in WEB modeling

experts in online application`s developing

the experts of thematic content

marketing experts

Description of work to be carried out by the partner(s) sought:

Design and implementation of the software product
Advertising platform`s promotion
Software optimization
Filling platform by the content
The implementation of expert functions

Specific Challenge: Despite the major advances in understanding disease in the post-genomic era, still a majority of all drugs are effective in only a limited number of patients. From a clinical perspective, implementing knowledge-based decisions on what therapeutics to use for which patients and, if relevant, in which combinations, are extremely challenging. The aspiration to provide more effective therapeutic interventions tailored to the individual or groups of individuals with common molecular phenotypes remains unfulfilled because of the variable response of individuals to such interventions.

The proposed project will research and deliver new methods for disease-mechanismbased patient stratification to address the needs for stratified or personalized therapeutic interventions. The proposals will develop new methods and implement them by integrated software system that will provide solutions to analyze multidimensional and longitudinal data from multiple sources, using areas like pharmacogenomics, systems biomedicine, big data analysis and computational modeling.

The new methods will support the development of improved targeted therapies, optimizing the intervention to individual patients, thus facilitating achievement of a greater success in treating or curing the patients.

The system and the process that will demonstrate new concepts of stratification will be validated in pre-clinical and clinical studies in 3 different locations, taking into account sex and gender differences. The system will be focused on addressing 3 complex diseases having high prevalence and possibly will also have high economic impact.

In the case of success system can in future be gradually improved by SMEs participated in the project by future developments to address main complex diseases.

The system design and implementation will comply with the regulatory aspects needed for clinical practice. The companies and SMEs participated in the system development will benefit from detailed plans for commercialization opportunities.

PARTNER PROFILE SOUGHT

Required skills and expertise of partner(s):

Hospital/University/company

1. Expirienced in coordination and management of concortium

2. Expert in proposal writing

Description of work to be carried out by the partner(s) sought:

Partner need to lead one WP and participate at least in two others

WP1 Management

WP2 Dissemination and communication.

WP4 Research and data collection.

Developing access to existed and establishing new medical data bases

WP3 Research the analysis methods and Modeling.

The medical data analysis methods and computational modeling.

WP4 System integration and software implementation.

WP5 Validation in pre-clinical and clinical studies.

WP6 System and methods demonstration. Demonstration to end users in 3 case studies.

Flying drones promise to replace many civilian services currently requiring humans by means of robots performing product delivery, agricultural monitoring, inspections and maintenance, damage assessments. For this vision to be concretized, drones need to be safe, reliable, available on demand and most importantly fully automatic. This revolution is facing three challenges:

1. the design of services that are possible to be executed within the regulations;

2. the development of landing stations that the drones can exploit as docking point to recharge their batteries;

3. the development of a master-control software that deals with coordination and optimization of the flights and operations of the drones performing the service.

The „Persistent Imaging with Robotized Drones” project (PIRD) is addressing the key technical challenges that all drone automation companies are facing today and that, if solved, will open the drone services market to existing and new industries. PIRD innovation will solve these challenges by the use of a platform managing transparently operations with small multi-copters and a network of landing/recharge stations. The PIRD system controls navigation, information feeds from the drones, and the operation strategy in a fault tolerant and law-abiding way. The software is able to program the flight plan best for each individual drone taking into account dynamically its role in the overall mission. The hardware ensures a permanent operation of the drones despite the limited autonomy and range of drones. The development of this innovation will allow for the first time to coordinate and manage in a fully automated way fleets of drones.

By integrating together the evolution of the prototypes developed during phase 1 of the SME instrument, the consortium intends to commercialize, in the short term, a modular platform that in the future can be deployed beyond industry 4.0 applications, especially in urban settings. This platform should provide an extremely flexible array of solutions that, thanks to the coordinated management of many available drones, can run either continuously (24/7), only at specific hours, or to be activated if triggered by specific events, such as alarms or natural events. The operators in the control room upgraded by the PIRD system will effectively have „eyes in the sky”, which will offer new real-time useful information, in a fully automatic way, with none or very little human supervision required.

The final business goal at the end of the SME instrument phase 2 is to tackle the global scene using these early achievements as a springboard for market penetration and to extend the viability of multiple innovative technological solutions to other potential fields of applications, such as

the safeguard of the national heritage (inspection of monuments or archaeological sites, extended photographic campaigns, etc.), the intervention in post-disaster scenarios (accidents, fires, earthquakes, landslides, etc.), the protection of the environment, and so on – contexts that could raise the interest of major institutional partners.

PARTNER PROFILE SOUGHT

Required skills and expertise of partner(s):

European SMEs (non-Italian) which implements projects on drones or provides services through drones.

The key sector within which the company operates has to be one of the following:

EPORE aims at supporting clearly defined groups of vulnerable consumers in tackling fuel poverty by facilitating more sustainable energy behavior and choices in their everyday life. It aims also at achieving structural changes of national policies to specifically address fuel poverty and include the transfer of best practices for the active engagement of vulnerable consumers.

EPORE will improve energy efficiency programmes especially in Eastern European countries, where there is a large stock of Soviet-era communal buildings / apartment blocks. Many buildings fall into the lowest energy efficiency categories and by implementing simple and cheap measures substantial long term savings can be achieved. In the Baltic countries, many buildings are supplied by district heating systems. It has long been recognised that such building stock often suffers from poor energy efficiency, and exacerbates problems of energy affordability.

Project outputs: 1) creation of new working positions called „energy scanners”, lower educated and long-term unemployed people trained to undertake an energy screening of the energy situation of a household, in whihc the household receive energy tips and energy saving devices, 2) guideline for addressing fuel poverty definition, condition and transfer of best practice (delivered to national policy-makers), 3) manual with tailored scheme of incentives in three specific selected region, 4) pilot actions in the three areas and condition/improvements monitoring after 12 months. EPORE target groups: 1) vulneranle consumers in Eastern Europe affected by energy poverty, 2) national policy-makers in the pilot actions area. Project results: 1) definition and characterization of energy poverty issue in the consortium countries, 2) raising awareness about energy efficiency and energy poverty thanks to the training and the creation of „energy scanners”, 3) definition and customization of territorial scheme of incentives in the consortium regions, 4) implementation of the pilot actions, 5) capitalization, communication and dissemination.

The partners will be involved in the project in a balance way. The work will be divided in the following task: 1) development of a training strategy for the creation of new working positions called „energy scanners”, 2) fuel poverty analysis in terms of tailored definition, criteria for characterization, 3) individuation of best practices and inclusion in the guideline, 4) elaboration of a regional scheme for incentives, 5) pilot actions implementation in three areas. Further tasks are related to the project results communication.

MIPCI project aims to increase the security level in Critical Infrastructures of utilities in water systems. The purpose of this project is developing an integral platform that protects the infrastructures from both physical and cyber-attacks. Furthermore, if an attack eventually occurs, the system makes the operator acts consequently. A whole incident prevention system IPS (based on honeynets and automatic created rules) and automatic access control subsystem, belonging to the prevention level, are integrated in the system. The CCTV subsystem, radars against aerial attacks and an incident prevention system IPS, belonging to the detection level, are integrated too. Both prevention and detection levels are supervised by a system developed from a SCADA and a Physical Security Incident Manager. In case of attack, the system executes an automatic protocol; the European guidelines about attack responses are considered in the protocol. In order to warn the public in the vicinity, warning software is managed by the tool, alerting selected people in the affected area. Also, geolocation of emergency service staff is controlled through the manager in order to protect and guide them during the mitigation actions.

PARTNER PROFILE SOUGHT

Required skills and expertise of partner(s):

The consortium is looking for partners in the following areas:

– Water operators

– Access control experts

– Security policy and standards

– Radar experts

– CCTV experts

– Civil protection organization

– Natural disaster modelling and prediction experts

– SCADA system manufacturer

Description of work to be carried out by the partner(s) sought:

The partners with the different profiles will be involved in the project work plan: